Nickelodeon’s Video Comics with Firestorm

Back in 1980 & 1981, a fledgling children’s TV network called Nickelodeon ran a series entitled Video Comics. Each episode, a DC comic was read to the audience while panels were shown on-screen. Some stories included were Adam Strange, Nutsy Squirrel, Sugar & Spike, and Swamp Thing. The live-action opening showed kids arriving at a store to buy comic books. Watch the video embedded below and look carefully around the 10 second mark! Click here if you can’t view the video below.

Here is a screen shot from those opening credits featuring some dude with his hair on fire!

I watched this show when it was on. All of the comics that were read, were from 60’s early 70’s DC comics such as, The Flash, Green Lantern, Swamp Thing, Adam Strange, some character named I think ultra (?), Sugar and Spike and random pulp sci fi stories. I do not recall anything stories with Firestorm.

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